SH RAJESHWAR NATH KAUL vs GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI & ORS.

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$~76 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 22nd September, 2025 + W.P.(C) 2744/2024 & CM APPL. 60066/2025 SH RAJESHWAR NATH KAUL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Shubham Gupta ,Adv. (Through VC) Mob: 8882785372 Email: [email protected] versus GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Avni Singh, panel counsel for R- GNCTD with Mr. Siddharth Gautam, Adv. Mob: 9958018998 Email: [email protected] Mr. Puneet Yadav, Adv. for R-MCD Mob: 9999388384 Email: [email protected] Mr. Dhruv Gautam, Adv. for R-3 Mob: 9999818999 Email: [email protected] CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA MINI PUSHKARNA, J (ORAL): CM APPL. 60066/2025 1. The present application has been filed on behalf of the petitioner seeking release of the vehicle bearing registration no. AYFT152, in view of the interim order dated 12th August, 2025, passed by the Supreme Court, in Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed Page 1 of 4 By:HARIOM SHARMA Signing Date:22.09.2025 20:07:52 W.P.(C) 13029/1985, titled as M.C. Mehta Versus Union of India & Ors. 2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the vehicle of the petitioner was impounded from outside the house of the petitioner. It is submitted that the petitioner had given an undertaking dated 04 th January, 2024, before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (“MCD”), wherein, it was categorically undertaken that the petitioner being a Non-Resident Indian (“NRI”) had brought the vehicle in question to India for sentimental values only, and that the vehicle in question will either be parked in the private property of the petitioner or the same shall be sent outside the Delhi National Capital Region (“NCR”). 3. However, the only objection that was raised by the MCD was with regard to the fact that